AI for Food Image Generation in Production: How & Why

AI for food image generation at Delivery Hero improved menu content, with data showing only 14% of products bought without images. The company built a system using Stable Diffusion, optimizing it to generate food images at less than 0.3 cents each, resulting in potential savings of millions. After addressing challenges with exotic local dishes through fine-tuning, the system now scales up to 36 nodes, generates up to 100,000 images daily, and allows restaurant owners to select AI-generated images, increasing conversion rates.